Process Diary
Lynda week 5
Dear Diary,
There is a lot more security to go over when it comes to wordpress. Here are some new things that I learned:
- Why is it important to keep your site current and up-to-date? New updates are preventing new vulnerabilities that are always coming up. If you don’t update then your site won’t be protected.
- How do you know if a plugin or theme is secure? Review, research and check, check, check. Start with WP hosted sites; look at ratings/reviews and latest versions to see if it’s up to date. Also check the WP version, author, and number of active installs. Check for quality by reading the description to see if it’s intelligent and informational. Make sure it has straightforward installation steps. Check for support and look at the screenshots.
- How can you change or recover your password if you forget it? There are 3 ways. A. go to the admin panel and change user password B. reset the password from the wordpress sign-in page C. go to ftp database – use_ftp, in the wordpress files go to wp-user, then user-pass. In the function put MDS and in the value put the new password. Hit “go”.
- How do you disable user registration? Go to the dashboard – under settings – general – membership – uncheck “anyone can register” and just in case under New user default change it to “subscriber”. Then save changes.
- What are the proper file permissions you should set? I didn’t find the answer to this in the video that I watched.
- How do you remove version numbers? Before I disabled file editing I saw them change version numbers in the dashboard. Under themes and plugins there was an edit option and they changed version numbers and then save it. I didn’t see anything else about version numbers in the video other than that.
You know the saying, “better to be safe than sorry”. I believe that!
Safe wordpressing,
Karen